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title: Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloqu… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics
description: Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amsterdam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amsterdam, sentence 4

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From Wikipedia, [«Amsterdam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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**What happens:** locate, refer · **To what, where:** Dutch province, Amsterdam

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amsterdam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Amsterdam:4
# text = Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1	Located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Holland	Holland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	colloquially	colloquially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Heritage	Heritage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Site	Site	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  |  |  | the Dutch province of North Holland |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refer** | present · passive |  | Amsterdam |  |  |  | as the Venice of the North and Dam's large number of canals  a Heritage Site; colloquially *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Amsterdam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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